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Sunday, April 25, 2004

I hate the Lakers

Through my stupor of fatigue, I have managed to catch a couple of hours of the NBA playoffs on TV. I don't really like the NBA much any more, but with the Blazers not in the playoffs this year (I fiendishly enjoyed jogging around an empty Rose Garden last evening), I'm naively hopeful that the league might one day become more likeable once again.

There's one eternal truth that won't be changing any time soon, though: I hate the Lakers.

I hate Shaq. I hate Kobe. I hate Phil "Col. Sanders" Jackson. I hate Derek Fisher. I hate Gary Payton. And although I'm occasionally tempted to respect him, I hate Karl Malone the worst. So many future NBA Hall of Famers, all on the same team. I hate them all.

On Friday night, the Houston Rockets made me extremely happy by beating the schmucks from Staples and narrowing their seven-game series to 2-1 in favor of the Lakers.

For me the defining moment came in the fourth quarter, when, with one referee sidelined with an injury and neither of the other two watching, Malone punched the Rockets' star center, the Chinese sensation Yao Ming, in the kidney.

Nice, Karl. You've made a career out of crap like that. Enjoy your arthritis. I pray that you and your loathsome teammates are eliminated as soon as possible.

Wow, someone from Portland complaining about the state of things in the NBA. Now THAT's rich. At least this season began the process of exporting all the jailblazers to points east rather than keeping them all in the Rose Garden penal colony.

:-)

(settle down people; we Laker fans have a sense of humor, too. of course, it's easier to come by with all those banners hanging from the rafters...)

sacramento sucks balls. the lakers are better than them because of shaq. you guys are hatin because he dominates your ass so bad. i hate the lakers, but kings fans piss me off. you probably like malone in utah, and the glove in seattle. shaq will still beats sacramentos ass over c webb or brad miller anytime, anywhere

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» Why I Hate the L.A. Lakers from The Unreasonable Man
Karl Malone is a two-bit thug... He has a history of playing dirty, and last night's ejection for intentionally slamming, with his forearm no less, into a guy who he outweighed by about 100 to 150 pounds was just the latest in his long line of thugge... [Read More]

» Why I Hate the L.A. Lakers from The Unreasonable Man
Karl Malone is a two-bit thug... He has a history of playing dirty, and last night's ejection for intentionally slamming, with his forearm no less, into a guy who he outweighed by about 100 to 150 pounds was just the latest in his long line of thugge... [Read More]

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